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Adam Entous / Reuters:
Lawyers see charges this week in CIA-leak case — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be laying the groundwork for indictments this week over the outing of a covert CIA operative, including possible charges of perjury and obstruction of justice …
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
'Mao': The Real Mao — If Chairman Mao had been truly prescient, he would have located a little girl in Sichuan Province named Jung Chang and "mie jiuzu"- killed her and wiped out all her relatives to the ninth degree. — But instead that girl grew up, moved to Britain and has now written …
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Roger L. Simon / Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter:
The Zabar's Zeitgeist Resurrects Mao — If anyone wants to know what I mean by the "New Reactionaries," they should have a look at Nicholas D. Kristof's review of MAO, The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday in today's NYTBR. After paying some homage to the biography …
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TBlumer / BizzyBlog.com:Nicholas Kristof and Mao: He Just, Can't, Let, Go
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The Conspiracy to Keep …
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
HEWITT V WILL — I'm sure this will be much discussed in certain quarters of the web today. Let me just throw in two cents now one small part of his broadside which is aimed in part at me. Hewitt writes: … Me: Piffle. If reports are to be believed Miers argued …
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:George Will and Hugh Hewitt on Harriet Miers
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Hugh Hewitt, SCOTUSblog, The American Mind, Patterico's Pontifications and A Chequer-Board of Nights …
Steve Clemons:
Brent Scowcroft "Breaks Ranks" with George W. Bush in Major New Yorker Article — Jeffrey Goldberg has written a critique in The New Yorker of the Bush White House that equals Ron Suskind's devastating critique of Bush before the last election titled "Without a Doubt."
Newsweek:
The Gathering Storm — How Katrina hurt Harriet—and what's next for the embattled high-court nominee. — Oct. 31, 2005 issue - The White House Counsel's Office is home to some of the best, brightest and busiest conservative lawyers in the country. Among their duties …
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Associated Press:
Four U.S. Contractors Killed in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - An angry mob of insurgents attacked a convoy of American contractors last month when they got lost in a town north of Baghdad, killing four and wounding two, the U.S. military said on Sunday. — The Sept. 20 attack in the mostly Sunni Arab town …
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Matt / The Tattered Coat:
Another Military Blogger Silenced — Months ago, in response to a post I wrote about the military blogger Colby Buzzell, Kate of Broken Windows told me to pay attention to Daniel Goetz, a soldier writing a blog called All the King's Horses. — Unfortunately, I never followed her advice.
New York Times:
Fitzgerald Is Expected to Decide Whether to Seek Indictments — WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 - After a 22-month inquiry, the special counsel in the C.I.A. leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, is expected to announce this week whether he will seek indictments against White House officials …
MSNBC:
Transcript for October 23 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, the war in Iraq, and the investigation into the CIA leak case. With us, three United States senators with very different views: Republican George Allen of Virginia …
Charles Fried / Boston Globe:
What Miers must show — OF COURSE, it is not necessary for Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to have attended an elite law school to be qualified for a seat on the Supreme Court: Neither John Marshall Harlan nor his grandfather (famous for his eloquent dissent in the separate-but-equal decision) …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Defending The Indefensible — Such is the perfect perversity of the nomination of Harriet Miers that it discredits, and even degrades, all who toil at justifying it. Many of their justifications cannot be dignified as arguments. Of those that can be, some reveal a deficit …
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CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES — Are White House Officials in Legal Jeopardy? ; Miller Testifies for Federal Shield Law for Reporters — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice-over): Indictment fever.
A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
BOLIVIAN FREE TRADE MARCH — Thousands of Bolivian workers marched on the U.S. embassy yesterday to demand … A FREE TRADE PACT WITH THE U.S. — Now who knew that? For god sakes give them their free trade pact! We'll all benefit if we can buy Bolivian goods!
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Time:
An Unholy Alliance? — A TIME investigation shows the lobbyist now at the center of a federal probe had a good friend eager to open doors at the White House: former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed — There was only one reason that clients ranging from Native-American tribes …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
The Washington Secret Often Isn't — WASHINGTON — There are still lots of real secrets in Washington. But the most secretive White House in modern history has learned the hard way - even while its spokesman reflexively utter the caution, "We don't talk about intelligence," or, "Sorry …
Associated Press:
Report: Texas Overpaid Miers in Land Sale — Texas officials paid Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' family more than $100,000 for a small piece of land in 2000 _ 10 times the land's worth _ despite the state's objections to the way the price was determined, Knight Ridder Newspapers reported Saturday.
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